We all know that laughter is the best therapy, I encourage students on my classes to laugh, its the best healing I know! I am thrilled to announce that Robin Graham a laughter therapy facilitator and teacher will be sharing laughter workshops at the healing school in the spring. Maybe you would like to train as a laughter therapist too?
Robin is co-founder of the UK Laughter Network. He currently runs an Arts and Health project in the North West of England based on laughter, including Laughter on Prescription and Laughter In Business.
Direct from Robin's website:
Here are five reasons why we have Laughter Events!
A. To allow ourselves to "play" again.
As we "grew up," did we stop playing, laughing and crying? As a child, it is also natural to laugh and to cry. In a Laughter Session, we can experiment with play, laughter and tears once again.
B. To challenge our inhibitions
Our greatest inhibitor is ourselves. We believe that we cannot or should not do something. So we stop ourselves. However, we use the values that we have been taught to decide what we allow ourselves to do. We carry inhibitions because of what other people think and feel, rather than allowing ourselves to think and feel for ourselves. By laughing at Laughter Events, we can challenge our inhibitions.
C. To let go of stresses and tensions
We cry or laugh at things that happening around us as a response to a trigger. Maybe we are laughing out of relief because it is someone else who is having misfortune, or looking stupid, or making mistakes. Or maybe it is a sense of relief that a difficult situation has come to a temporary or permanent end. Or maybe we laugh because something is out of place, or incongruous, or doesn't logically follow.
We might laugh at a funeral, or when someone tells us that their pet hamster died in the washing machine. We may burst our laughing when someone who is showing off falls over on a banana skin.
Every time we laugh, we are letting go of the discomfort associated with the trigger action. So if we can laugh for no reason at all, maybe we can release some extra suppressed emotions in advance. We can shake away some of our worries. We can get rid of some of our "baggage."
D. To witness each other, and enjoy the company of others
In a group, we can challenge and overcome our shyness, and learn to relax together. We can witness other people laughing, and laugh with them. It is easy, pleasurable and very sociable to laugh in a group!
E. We can improve our physical well-being.
Did you know that laughing is like an internal massage!
Look at www.writelaugh.co.uk for more info.